The hunt for Jasper: Head Out in Search of Fire-starting Rocks:
(This story was written by reporter Jim Witty and published in the Oct. 20, 2004 edition of “The Bulletin” in Bend, Oregon.)
Jim Grenfell and Leon Pantenburg like to play with fire.
“Kids like to play with fire,” said Pantenburg. “So we let them play with fire.”
Grenfell and Pantenburg have rediscovered the (nearly) lost art of making fire using flint and steel. That is, steel and hard, flinty rock like certain types of jasper.
It’s pretty nifty, what these guys do.
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